A toshiyori (年寄) is a sumo elder of the Japan Sumo Association (JSA). Also known as oyakata (親方), former wrestlers who reached a sufficiently high rank...

Onigiri as Umayama-oyakata, a toshiyori who helps Inushima on his quest to power. Akira Nakao as Kumada-oyakata, a toshiyori and current chairman of the...

Japan Sumo Association (JSA). More accurately called "elder stock" or toshiyori kabu, these names are a finite number of licenses that can be passed on...

Minamoto no Shunrai also Minamoto Toshiyori (源 俊頼, 1055 – January 29, 1129) was an important and innovative Japanese poet, who compiled the Kin'yō Wakashū...

retirement Hokutoumi became a member of the Japan Sumo Association with the toshiyori name "Hakkaku". He opened up his own stable, Hakkaku stable, which has...

him demoted to the third makushita division. He is staying in sumo as a toshiyori or elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name Ajigawa Oyakata...

Karoyan), allowing him to remain in sumo as an elder. He acquired the Naruto toshiyori kabu (elder license) in 2015, and began as a coach at Sadogatake stable...

celebration of his 60th birthday (called kanreki in Japanese). If he is a toshiyori (a sumo elder), the ceremony is usually held at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan...

O-toshiyori (上臈御年寄) - Took orders from the midaidokoro and gave her counsel - Usually a woman who was from a respected and noble family O-toshiyori (御年寄)...

in the sumo world as an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the toshiyori name of Kasugayama. In 1994, when his father retired, he became Izutsu...